This Is The Kit today released “Stuck In A Room,” the band’s last single previewing their new album Careful Of Your Keepers–produced by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals)–due out this Friday, June 9th via Rough Trade Records. The quartet of Kate Stables (guitar/vocals), Rozi Plain (bass/vocals), Neil Smith (guitar), and Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums). “Stuck In A Room” plants the listener in the most familiar of recent quandaries, wanting to leave but being unable to.

Songwriter Stables explains: “It's not so much about being stuck in a literal room (although I suppose it is a bit) but more about getting
stuck in the imaginary restrictive rooms we create for ourselves. The behavioural patterns that aren't always very helpful to us. The loops we go round and round in. The way we deal with what other people expect of us. That sort of thing.”

Stables described Gruff Rhys role as being a “tonesetter,” watchful and attentive to the band dynamics while making sure to always follow a hunch for where a new sound could find its place in the recording. “They are so ridiculously talented–and every member is a great producer in their own right–so it was just a matter of trying to capture the magic they make when playing live together,” Rhys says of the recording process. “Their playing is by default so thoughtful and complimentary in terms of respect to each other’s parts and to the integrity of the songs themselves that it creates a beautiful foundation of often cosmic interplay that’s always in aid of Kate’s voice and vision as a songwriter.”

This Is The Kit 2023 Instore Tour

07/06/23– 6.30pm – Vinyl Store (Lyon, France)
08/06/23– 7pm – Ground Zero (Paris, France)
09/06/23– 1.30pm – Pie & Vinyl
09/06/23– 6.30pm – Resident Instore
10/06/23– 1pm – David’s (Letchworth)
10/06/23– 7pm – Rough Trade East (London)
11/06/23– 1pm – Sound Knowledge (Marlborough)
12/06/23– 8pm – Banquet Records (London) – full band instore
13/06/23– 1pm – Fopp (Manchester)
13/06/23– 5pm – Jumbo records (Leeds)
14/06/23– 9pm – Monorail (Glasgow)
15/06/23– 5pm – Assai (Edinburgh)
18/06/23– 1pm – Rough Trade (Bristol)

This Is The Kit 2023 Tour Dates:

05/19/23 – Portcurno, UK – Minack Theatre, Matinee Show
05/19/23 – Portcurno, UK – Minack Theatre, Evening Show (SOLD OUT)
06/16/23 – Kent, UK – Black Deer Festival
07/16/23 – Hertfordshire, UK – Folk By The Oak
07/27/23 – Warwick, UK – Warwick Folk Festival
07/29/23 – North Yorkshire, UK – Deer Shed Festival
09/20/23 – Antwerp, BE – De Roma
09/21/23 – Amsterdam, NL – THT/Tolhuistuin
09/22/23 – Nijmegen, NL – Doornroosje
09/23/23 – Hamburg, DE – Reeperbahn Festival
09/24/23 – Copenhagen, DK – Hotel Cecil
09/26/23 – Berlin, DE – Frannz Club
09/27/23 – Leipzig, DE – Connewitz
09/29/23 – Munich, DE – Milla
09/30/23 – Zürich, CH – Bogen F
10/01/23 – Lyon, FR – Epicerie Moderne
10/03/23 – Lille, FR – Aeronef
10/05/23 – Reims, FR – Cartonnerie
10/06/23 – Paris, FR – Trabendo
10/11/23 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
10/12/23 – Boston, MA – Cafe 939 Berklee College of Music
10/13/23 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s 
10/14/23 – Washington, DC – Songbyrd
10/17/23 – Toronto, Canada – The Drake Hotel
10/19/23 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
10/20/23 – Milwaukee, WI – The Back Room at Colectivo Coffee
10/21/23 – Minneapolis, MN – Turf Club
10/24/23 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall
10/26/23 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
10/27/23 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
10/28/23 – Seattle, WA – Woodlawn Hall
10/29/23 – Vancouver, WA – Wise Hall
11/01/23 – Grass Valley, CA – The Center for the Arts
11/02/23 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
11/04/23 – Pasadena, CA – South Pasadena Masonic
11/08/23 – Worthing, UK – Assembly Hall
11/09/23 – Cambridge, UK – Junction
11/10/23 – Reading, UK – St. Laurence Church
11/11/23 – Cardiff, UK – Tram Shed
11/12/23 – Birmingham, UK – Glee Club
11/14/23 – Bangor, UK – Neuadd Ogwen
11/16/23 – Cork, IRE – Cyprus Avenue
11/17/23 – Galway, IRE – Roisin Dubh
11/18/23 – Dublin, IRE – National Concert Hall
11/19/23 – Belfast, UK – Mandela Hall
11/21/23 – Edinburgh, UK – Summerhall
11/22/23 – Gateshead, UK – Sage
11/23/23 – Leeds, UK – Irish Centre
11/24/23 – Manchester, UK – Academy 2
11/25/23 – London, UK – Barbican
02/03/24 – Bristol UK –  Bristol Beacon

Purchase tickets for This Is The Kit HERE